[License-review] For Legacy Approval: LBNL BSD

[Bruce Perens]

Why do they still need to use this rather than the plain BSD license?

Thanks

Bruce


On Thu, May 16, 2019, 16:33 Sebastian Ainslie <sainslie at lbl.gov> wrote:

> The license:
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> The rationale:
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> The LBNL BSD has been in use since 2003. It has an ADDED paragraph at the
> end that makes it easier to accept improvements without a specific grant
> required.
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> Early examples:
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> https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause-LBNL.html
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:LBNLBSD
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> Proliferation category:
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> Special purpose - US Federal National Lab
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> Kind regards
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> Sebastian Ainslie
>
> Principal Commercialization & Licensing Lead Intellectual Property Office
> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
> www:   ipo.lbl.gov
> e mail:  sainslie at lbl.gov
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